MANGAPAI FATALATY.
CORONER'S INQUEST. VERDICT: ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) WHANGAREI, Saturday. At Mangapai this afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. J. D. McKenzie, acting-coroner, and a jury of four on the body of David Miller, who was shot on the previous day. Herbert Stanley Carter deposed that deceased and others bad just come into Miller's residence and had started to clean their rifles. Witness went outside and got a 44-calibre Winchester repeating rifle. He brought it in to show howit worked, putting a cartridge in the breech. Deceased was sitting about six feet away opposite. After witness bad put the cartridge in the breech and was attempting to close the breech bis thumb came in contact with tbe trigger and the weapon was discharged. Tlie bullet hit the wood on the side of a chair and then licoehetted, entering Miller's stomach. Afterwards the bullet was found in deceased's clothes at the back of his body.
A verdict was returned: "That the deceased, David Miller, came to his death at Mangawai on May 1, death being due to shock nnd loss of hlood from a wound caused by a bullet accidentally discharged from a rifle by Herbert Stanley Carter."
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 103, 4 May 1925, Page 9
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